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Cattle Car. 7 No. 233,630. Patented Oct. 26, 1880.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,630, dated October 26, 1880.

Application filed September 6, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, IsAAo M. LINCOLN, of the city and county of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stock or Cattle Cars; and I declare the following to be a specification thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

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Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved car. Fig. 2 is a top View of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse horizontal section on the line a: m, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section on the line 2 2, Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a detail view.

My invention relates to railway-cars for the transportation of cattle and livestock and it consists in fitting a cattle-car with suitable interior hanging partitions traveling upon trucks and rails from end to end of the car, said partitions having double stanchions swinging laterally to hold the cattle in position.

The shipmentof cattle, especially wild steers, upon cars is a diflicult proceeding and attended with danger. Cattle-cars as heretofore fitted afford no facilities'for forcing the cattle into place and securing them there without injury to themselves or others.

I obviate the difficulty by means of my im proved traveling partition. As the bullock enters the car the men follow him up with the partition, pushing it against him and crowd' ing him to his place, while the partition, being between the animal and the men, serves as a suflicient protection.

The cattle-car A is made in the ordinary manner, having the usual doors B. From hangers 0, attached to the rafters, a rail, D, is suspended from end toend of the car on each side. Upon the rail 1) the truck E travels, to the carriage F of which the partition G is swiveled.

By swiveling the partition, as described, I am able to advance either end of the partition as desired, thus forcing the steer into place, instead of moving the entire partition rigidly forward always at right angles with the sides of the car.

The partitions G are made preferably of four upright and upper and lower transverse beams, as shown in Fig. 4, and have a series of vertical rods, H. The partitions when rolled into position are secured by bolts to to'the respective sides of the car.

Vertical stanchions I I, connected at the top and bottom by the rotating bars J J, turning upon pivots 1), swing laterally to a position at a right angle with the partition, as shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 5, and when in that position are held firmly by the locking-pieces K K, pivoted at c 0, and slotted, as shown in Fig. 4, falling into engagement with the angular tenon d of the stanchion. When not in use the stanchions are folded back against the partition, as shown in Fig. 4.

When the car is not used for the conveyance of cattle the partitions are rolled to one end of the car, where they hang side by side in close contact, leaving the interior space of the car available for general freight purposes.

At each end of the car a single stanchion, L, is pivoted, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

When the cattle are in transit the necessary food and drink are supplied to them, being carried upon the top of the car and delivered as desired. The hay is carried in thehay-box M, which has a suitable lid, 6, and is fed to the .oattle through the openings N in the roof of the car, whence it falls to the floor in front of the bullock, as shown in Fig.3. The water is carried in longitudinal tanks 0 upon each side of the car-roof, connected by the cross-pipe P, so that both tanks may be filled at the same time from either side at Q. From the tanks 0 pipes f extend downward by the side of the car, allowing the water, when the lever or stopcock It is turned, to How into the troughs S. These troughs are detachable, as shown in Fig. 4, and are readily removed when the car is used for general freight.

When the bullock has entered the car by the plank T, one or more men follow him up with a movable partition, G, crowding him into place. The partition is then bolted to the sides of the car. The rotating stanchion is brought around to a right angle with the partition and locked in place. The bullock is confined by I am aware that partitions have been arranged to slide lengthwise of the car upon rods attached to the frame; but such construction causes too much friction between the parts to 5 allow its successful use.

I claim as a useful and novel invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The partition G, hung by swivel-joints from the carriages F F, the trucks E E of 10 which roll upon horizontal rails D D, the latter suspended from the roof of the carA from end to end, substantially as described.

2. The double stanchions I I, connected at the top and bottom by the rotating bars J J and securedin position by thelocking-pieces K, I 5 in combination with the trax'eling' partition Gr, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

Witnesses: ISAAC M. LINCOLN.

WARREN R. PERoE, BENJAMIN L. DENNIS. 

